Category: Ethiopia

  • Ethiopia: Hunger Crisis Eclipsed By Political Turmoil Elsewhere

    Ethiopia: Hunger Crisis Eclipsed By Political Turmoil Elsewhere

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. By: Merga Yonas. The food shortage in Ethiopia is getting worse. Aid agencies say up to 15 million people could suffer because of the El Nino-induced drought. Officials fear donors are neglecting the country in favor of others. In December 2015, the…

  • Ethiopia: UN Agency Sounds Alarm Over Africa’s Growing Foreign Debt

    Ethiopia: UN Agency Sounds Alarm Over Africa’s Growing Foreign Debt

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 27, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Africa is faced with increasing debt repayments especially those countries that have borrowed in foreign markets, the United Nation’s Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) warned Tuesday ahead of the 26th African Union (AU) summit that opens later this week in Ethiopia. At…

  • Switzerland: A Red Sea Foundation Launched to Drive Growth in Regional Trade

    Switzerland: A Red Sea Foundation Launched to Drive Growth in Regional Trade

    DAVOS (HAN) January 26, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. A non-profit policy think tank, the Red Sea Foundation, is being set up to develop a trade facilitation framework for the Red Sea region. According to Fahd Al Rasheed, CEO of King Abdullah Economic City, a port on the Red Sea which began operations…

  • Ethiopia: Tanzania Threatens to Deport Migrants from Drought-hit Ethiopia

    Ethiopia: Tanzania Threatens to Deport Migrants from Drought-hit Ethiopia

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 26, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Tanzanian authorities have threatened to deport hundreds of Ethiopian migrants who have crossed into the country illegally while trying to make their way to South Africa. The east African country is a major transit route for migrants, used by smugglers to ferry…

  • Ethiopia: Worst Drought in 50 Years

    Ethiopia: Worst Drought in 50 Years

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 25, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Ethiopia is facing its worst drought in half a century, Save the Children warns ahead of a meeting of world leaders including UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, for the 26th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on Monday. Drought conditions, triggered by…

  • Ethiopia: U.S. Response Force Helps Certify Spanish Pilots

    Ethiopia: U.S. Response Force Helps Certify Spanish Pilots

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 7, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Refueling MV-22B Ospreys is nothing new for a U.S. Marine KC-130J Hercules crew, but providing almost half a million pounds of fuel to more than 50 Spanish aircraft is not standard. That’s exactly what the detachment of U.S. Marine KC-130J Hercules with…

  • Ethiopia: Dr. Tedros meets Festus Gontebanye Mogae

    Ethiopia: Dr. Tedros meets Festus Gontebanye Mogae

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 6, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros Adahnom met with the Chairman of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation commission for South Sudan (JMEC), and former President of Botswana, Mr Festus Gontebanye Mogae in his office today (January 6,2016). During the discussion the two sides dealt…

  • Ethiopia: Working to be a Member of the Non-Permanent Member of the Security Council

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 6, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. Foreign Minister Dr. Tedros said on Saturday (January 02) that preparations had been made to make Ethiopia a non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council. Dr. Tedros said the country was the only candidate from East Africa and lobbying was underway…

  • Ethiopia: What if They Were Really Set Free?

    Ethiopia: What if They Were Really Set Free?

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 6, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. The Ben Abeba restaurant is a spiral-shaped concrete confection perched on a mountain ridge near Lalibela, an Ethiopian town known for its labyrinth of 12th-century churches hewn out of solid rock. The view is breathtaking: as the sun goes down, a spur…

  • Ethiopia: 2015 Marked a Sprint in Time, With the Ticker Moving in Different Directions

    Ethiopia: 2015 Marked a Sprint in Time, With the Ticker Moving in Different Directions

    ADDIS ABABA (HAN) January 5, 2016 – Public Diplomacy and Regional Stability Initiatives News. So much has happened in Ethiopia in the span of one year. It could be said that 2015 marked a sprint in time, with the ticker moving in different directions, to a nation that saw more tidal events than in any other…

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